SB17-105

SB17-105 - Consumer Right To Know Electric Utility Charges

House Sponsors

Senate Sponsors

Concerning consumers' right to know their electric utility charges by requiring investor-owned electric utilities to provide their customers with a comprehensive breakdown of cost on their monthly bills.

The bill requires an investor-owned electric utility to file with the public utilities commission (commission) for the commission's review a comprehensive billing format that the investor-owned electric utility has developed for its monthly billing of customers. An investor-owned electric utility shall file the comprehensive billing format pursuant to a schedule determined by the commission. The comprehensive billing format must include the following:

A line-item representation of all monthly charges and credits applied to the customer and an indication whether the charges have increased from the prior month as a result of increased fuel costs;

For months in which tiered rates are applied, a breakdown of the tiered rates and the amount of usage to which each rate was applied for the month;

The rate and usage for the current month and each of the previous 12 months, as shown in a bar graph or other visual format; and

For customers to which demand rates apply, a listing of the demand charge, aggregated data about the demand during the billing period, and, if the customer is a residential customer, a calculation of the amount that the customer would have been billed had standard residential rates applied.

The bill also requires each investor-owned utility to provide its customers, on a biannual basis, with an insert that indicates, as a percentage, each fuel source used in power generation and purchased for the utility.

The bill sets forth procedures for the commission's review of a filed comprehensive billing format and provides that once a comprehensive billing format has been approved by the commission, the investor-owned utility need not refile it unless changes have been made to it.

(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

House Committees

Senate Committees

05/22/2017 - Governor Signed
05/01/2017 - Sent to the Governor
05/01/2017 - Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/27/2017 - Signed by the President of the Senate
04/21/2017 - Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
04/20/2017 - Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/19/2017 - House Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor
04/18/2017 - House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
04/17/2017 - House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
04/12/2017 - House Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/27/2017 - Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Energy
02/23/2017 - Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
02/22/2017 - Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee
02/16/2017 - Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
01/27/2017 - Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy

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